iPhone 6 tingling when charging

naasrd

Have a few official Apple charger plugs and one cheap one. When using some I get a tingling sensation, but on one in particular, nothing. I read that some Apple plugs have a dummy earth pin on the plug. So in effect my device isn't earthed. I opened one up to check and found this… I'm thinking this one might might be a cheap knock off but I get the same sensation on my new iPhone 6 charger and I don't want to open that up.

jaymcg91

My Macbook tingles slightly when it's charging because of something to do with earthing (it came with a bigger plug but i didn't bother with it).

Stinicker

Happens to me also on the iPad Air, I researched it at the time as I thought something was wrong, its a common thing but nothing to worry about.

guil

I notice the same on my 5s. Mostly happens if I charge it from the laptop.

dloob

Most chargers aren't earthed and use a floating earth.
I had a dell laptop that used to do it, only a plastic earth pin on the charger, the metal palmrest would be tingly when plugged in.

Does the charger have a serial number inside the usb port? I've heard that's usually only on the genuine ones not the counterfeit.
The soldering of those pins doesn't look great.

Greentree_uk

use the long lead that came with your mac and the tingling issue will be resolved, this only happens when the short plug is used as it does not have an earth pin unlike the long cable

with iPhones there is no earth pin so tingling may happen, usually well within EU tolerance levels